Brooder.



BATENTED DEC. 17, 1907. G. A. GYPHBRS.

' BROODBR.

APPLIUATION FILED JAN. 2,-1906.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. cumtss A. YPnEns, or BUFF LO, NEW vonn ssrenon, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, I To MODEL mounATou COMPANY, or BUFFALO, NEW Y RK, A CORPORATION or NEW YORK.

To all whom it may concern:

.Be it known that I, CHARLES A. OYrHERs,

' a citizen of the United States, residing at ture in the several parts of the same.

In brooders of the type to which my infvention is particularly applicable, there are two gener divisions, namely, the nursery and the exercising room. W thin the nursery is the hover.

One of the chief difliculties inbrooder construction in the past has been to properly warm the .nurserywithout overheating the hover. .To secure the best results, the hover temperature should be but a little higher should not be subjected to a strong radiated 'ercising room at 2.

than the general temperature of the nursery. Again, the chickens, when in the brooder,

heat or to astrong flow of hi hly heated air, since such conditions make them tender and liable to disease. It follows, therefore, that in order to properly heat 'the nursery without overheating the hover, other means than by heating the nursery from the overflow of heat from the hovenmust be employed; and this, together with other ends I accomplish in the following manner.

Referring to the drawin s herewith, in which'like characters of re ere'ncerefer to like arts, Figure 1 is a perspective of a b1'00( er equipped with my improvements, the parts being cut away to show the internal construction. Fig. 2 is an enlarged vertical section of the nursery and hover showing my improvements more in detail.

he nursery is indicated at 1, and the ex- The nursery has an elevated floor 3, the s ace below forming the lamp chamber 5. he hover 6 is formed in the nursery 1, in the usual manner. The top of the hoverisof porous material 7 and a hover heating chamber 4 is formed over the bracket 11 in the top, having side walls 8 and a solid covering 9. -This hover heating chamber extends over the length of the hover.

The'heatin-g lam '10 is sup orted by a lamp cham er 5.which bracket is secured to the under side of the Specification of Letters. Patent. Application filed January 21 1906. Serial No- 294.199.

BROODER.

PatentecLDec. 17, 1907.

smoke orwaste flue 13- which passes down through the floor 3 and fits tightly at its base through a metaljring 21 attached to the floor so that no products of combustion returning through the waste flue16 can pass into the fresh air compartments of the heating chamher. and connects with a smoke or waste flue 14 which passes through the hover heating chamber 4 over hover 6 and thence into the exercising room 2 through the flue 15 and thence into the lamp chamber 5 through the flue 16 where it discharges the combustion products which are diffused in said lam chamber 5 and eventually pass out throu opening 17. A door 27'gives access to t e lamp, and mica peep-holes 25, in the fines 24 and 13 permit observation of the lamp flame.

The waste flue 13 is closed at its top.

The 'brooder has the usual glazed door 29 and" the exercising-room has the usual glazed door brooder surround the jacket 24 and form a,

nursery heating chamber 23 from which the A jacket 24 is placed around the fine 13 freshly heated air which is admitted through the vent 22and the small openings 28 near the floor passes directly to the nursery. These partitions 18 also serve to keep the chicks from gettin into the nursery heating chamber 23. The ower portion of the heating space 4? is open so that it may take the air fromthe nursery heatin chamber 23 which inturn is supplied with iresh air through a vent 22 which. leads from the outsideair into the nursery heating chamber 23 at a point just above the floor 3.

It will be understood that the brooder is provided with the usual door opening 31 from the nursery to the exercising room as well as openings such as the hole 26 and-tho door 30 for ventilation in tho exercising ther heated by radiation from. the hue 14, spreads out over the chamber a andis evenly an d gently disseminated downwardly through the porous material 7 into the hover 6. This both warms and ventilates the hover. The movement of the air, however, is slow and even so that the chicks rest comfortably beneath the hover without feeling any drafts.

The jacket 24 radiates heat into the nursery heating chamber 23 and thus sets up convection currents which pass over the top of the walls 18 directly into the nursery thereby heating it to nearly as high a temperature as the hover 6. It will thus .be

" seen that the chicks in the hover are not subspace 4 before it can either reach the nurscry or the hover portions oi the brooder.

The lamp burner is so placed that the point o'r' combustion is above the metal plate 2]. while the body of the lamp 1.0 is suspended .in the lamp chamber 5 and is thus kept cool while the oil is protected from being over heated.

Having thus described my invention and its method of operation, what 1 claim is:

1. in a brooder the combination with a nursery of a hover, a source of heat, a nursery heating chamber surrounding said source of heat and leading directly into said nursery, a hover heating chamber extending over the length of the said hover, a perforate heat disserninating body interposed between said hover heating chamber and said hover, a waste l'lue leading from said source of heat and passing tl'rrough said hover heating chamber. v

2. in a brooder the combination with a nursery and allover, oi a lamp chamber located. below the lloor of said nursery, a lamp suspended in said lamp chamber and having its point of combustion immediately above the floor ol said nursery and a waste flue leading from said lamp over said hover and thence back into said lamp chamber.

3. In a brooder, the combination with a nursery and hover, of a lamp chamber located below the floor of the said nursery, a lamp suspended insaid lamp chamber and having its point of combustion immediately above the floor of said nursery, a-Waste flue l leading from said lamp over said hover and thence back into said lamp chamber and means for preventing the products of combustion from reaching either said nursery or said hover. 1 l 4. In a brooder the combination with a cated below the floor of said nursery, a lamp suspended in said lamp chamber and having its point of combustion immediately above the floor of said nursery a hover heating chamber extending over the length, of 'said hover, a waste flue leading from said lamp chamber and thence leading to said lamp chamber.

-5. In a brooder the combination with a nursery and a hover, of a lamp chamber located below the floor of said nursery, a lamp suspended in said lamp chamber and having its point of combustionimmediately above the floor of said nursery, a hover --heat ing chamber, a waste ilue leading from said lamp and passing through said hover heating chamber, a heating flue-surrounding the portion of the waste-flue from lamp'to hoverheating chamber, and, a nurseryheating chamber surrounding said last mentioned inc and leading directly into said nursery.

6. In a brooder the combination with a nursery, a lamp suspended in said lam'p chambcr'and having its point of combustion immediately above the floor of sai nursery, a hover heating chamber extending over the length of said hover and a waste flue leading from said lamp and passing through said and back into said lamp chamber.

7. In a brooder the combination with a nursery, at a hover, an exercising room, a lamp chamber located below the floor of said nursery, a lamp suspended in said lamp chamber and having its point of combustion immediately abovethe floor of said nursery, a hover-heating eh amber, a waste flue leading from said lamp andpassing through said hpver heating chamber, said exercising room and backinto said lamp chamber, a heating flue surrdunding the portion of the wasteiiue fromlamp to hover-heating chamber, and a nurser -heal'ing chamber surrounding said last-mentioned flue and leading directly into the nursery.

my hand in the presence of two witnesses. CHARLES A. CYPHERS. Witnesses;

' WILLI M B. Fara,

E. AqKnL'rr.

nursery and a hover, of a lamp c'hamber loand passing through said. hover heating nursery of a hover, an exercising room, a lamp chamber located below the floor or said hover heating chamber, said exercising room,

in testimony whereof, I have hereunto set 

